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Mr Ciro Meza
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Ciro is a lawyer graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a specialist in Tax Law from Universidad del Rosario. In 2006 he obtained a LL.M. degree in International and Comparative Law from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, USA.
From 2006 to 2010, he worked as a tax manager at Deloitte Colombia. Prior to this, he served as associate for two firms focused on tax and international trade, Godoy & Hoyos (2003 – 2004) and Araujo Ibarra & Asociados (2001 – 2003). He has also been a professor of tax law courses at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Externado de Colombia and Universidad ICESI.
Ciro joined Baker McKenzie in 2010, and since 2014 he heads the Firm’s Tax practice group in Bogotá.
He focuses his practice on tax planning, consulting and tax litigation. Over more than 20 years, he has advised companies in the oil & gas, pharmaceutical, technology, mass consumption and mining sectors, on matters related to tax planning & consulting, and litigation.
Rankings:
- Band 1, Tax, Chambers Latin America, 2024
- Band 1, Tax, Chambers Global, 2024
- Leading Individual, Tax, Legal 500 Latin America, 2024
- Highly Regarded, General Corporate Tax, ITR World Tax, 2024
- Highly Regarded, Tax Law: Corporate Tax, Leaders League, 2024
- Highly Regarded, Wealth Management, Leaders League, 2024
Languages
Spanish - English
Memberships
International Fiscal Association (IFA) and ICDT (Colombian Tax Institute)
Education
- Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA (LL.M. International & Comparative Law) (2006).
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia (Lawyer) (2001).
- Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia (Specialization in Tax Law) (2003)
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Tax
(Leading partners)Commended by clients for its ‘excellent combination of technical knowledge and business understanding’, Baker McKenzie S.A.S. houses a dominant full-service tax offering that provides advice across the full range of tax planning, wealth management, litigation, compliance and transfer pricing cases, among other matters. Its lawyers’ ‘excellent co-ordination with teams from other jurisdictions’ is a recurring theme among sources, with the Bogotá-based group distinguished by its ability to lean on the wider firm’s dominant global practice for additional firepower in cross-border tax mandates. Among the names to note, managing partner Ciro Meza is widely recognised as a leading tax specialist, who can turn his hand to the full range of tax planning, consulting and contentious work; he advises SierraCol on all of its transfer pricing and tax issues. Meza co-heads the department together with transfer pricing specialist Gustavo Sánchez, and transactional tax partner Juan David Velasco, who is highlighted for his ‘superior sensitivity to the particularities of business and its impact at the international level’. The group further draws on a strong second line of senior associates, including Laura Durán, Andrea Jimenez and Juan David López, along with new arrival Carolina Roldán, who joined from Deloitte Legal (New York) in August 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
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